Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Minnesota

Carl Pohlad

Crossposting this here and at the wikiproject mlb: The Carl Pohlad article is lacking. Can we build a proper article for the man? He's all over national news right now (died in the last 24 hours). I'm afraid I'm not of much use anymore, don't have the time, but I was hoping for a better article when I got online today after hearing the news. Be on the lookout for good sources with bio info...cheers! Keeper ǀ 76 05:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to Minnesota Voices Online community/Unconference to MN Wikipedians

I'd like to invite active Wikipedians in Minnesota to join the Minnesota Voices Online community of practice: http://e-democracy.org/mnvoices An "unconference" is in the works and we'd like have some of the more active contributors of Wikipedia who live in Minnesota (particularly Greater Minnesota) join us. I am not sure if this is the best place to reach you - if not, please tell me where I should post. One idea I am thinking about promoting is some sort of Wikipedia Weekend where we would encourage people interested in improving/updating/correcting the content about their local Minnesota community to gather in local places around the state. Such an idea could create a big etiquette mess if those already knowledgeable about how to contribute properly to Wikipedia are not involved. Cheers, Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org - http://e-democracy.org/contact —Preceding unsigned comment added by Netclift (talk • contribs) 13:53, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Requested move notification

I have requested the move of Empire Builder to Empire Builder (Amtrak). Reasons given at the talk page. Mjroots (talk) 14:42, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

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I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 22:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Minnesota State Law Library

This recently minted article could use some eyes. Thanks in advance =) –xeno (talk) 02:01, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I have a small project for someone, if interested.

Someone could write an article about The Blend, a Minnesota music group. There are references and an infobox here for you to use (or not use.) Grandmasterka 20:13, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Young–Quinlan

I see that there's no article about Young–Quinlan (with an ndash, of course, i.e. Young-Quinlan with a hyphen should redirect to the page with the ndash). One Thanksgiving Day, 2004, the StarTribune ran an article about a book being written about Elizabeth Quinlan, who is mentioned in some Wikipedia articles, but lacks her own article. The clothing manufacturing company of which she was co-founder, Young–Quinlan, was reported in that article to have gone out of business in (I think?) 1986. The fact is, I had not noticed until reading that newspaper article in 2004 that Young–Quinlan was no longer in business. I had grown up accustomed to seeing the Young–Quinlan label. The only places where you find the name Young–Quinlan mentioned in Wikipedia now is where it mentions the Young–Quinlan Building in Minneapolis, so called (obviously) because it was the retail outlet of that company, whose products were also sold in innumerable department stores and other places where clothing is sold.

Should this be done something about? Michael Hardy (talk) 04:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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Assessment Drive

Would someone be interested in organizing an assessment drive to assess all the articles under this project's scope? There are currently 1,203, which is a bit more than I am willing/able to handle on my own, at least in a reasonable amount of time. With WikiProject Norse History and Culture, I helped to get a drive going that ended up assessing ~1,500 articles in just over 4 months. I am currently very busy in real life, so I don't have the time to organize one myself. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 20:31, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in St. Paul

There is a Mormon temple in St. Paul. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 21:27, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Does your WikiProject care about talk pages of redirects?

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Photo request: Northwest Airlines headquarters in Eagan

Someone needs to get a photo of the Northwest Airlines headquarters in Eagan. WhisperToMe (talk) 14:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Photo request: Bill Carlson

Perhaps WCCO or his family could be approached. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben7 (talk • contribs) 07:24, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

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Info box anomaly

I'm an infrequent minamally experienced Wikipedia editor form Mpls, MN - Hennepin County which I happened to look up today to get it's area which was not displayed in it's info box. I edited it and Anoka county's page (whose area was displayed) for comparison. I updated the tags on the Henn. pg to include "sq_mi" for example which fixed the problem. But then I noticed that the Henn info box displayed better relative to the headings - Total, - Land,- Area. On the Anoka page the mi and km numbers are on separate lines unrelated to the headings.

I do not see a source code difference which accounts for this so can not fix it. Fholson 13:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fholson (talk • contribs)

TCF Bank Stadium GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed TCF Bank Stadium for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:40, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Nehrams2020, thank you. Most of the dead links are fixed with copies in Internet Archive. The only remaining question concerns alcohol. Somebody else will have to dig that out (I don't know). -SusanLesch (talk) 04:12, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Added a sentence about the regents upcoming vote on the proposal to ban alcohol. If I missed anytning please holler otherwise it's done. Thanks again for the review. -SusanLesch (talk) 22:39, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Good work on addressing the issues. The article has been kept as a GA. Continue to keep an eye on it, especially with the upcoming debut of the stadium. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 05:51, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Minneapolis Pops Orchestra

I've just created a (for now) severely stubby new article titled Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. Tasks:

• Expand the article.
• Decide which additional category tags it should bear (and add them).
• Decide which other articles should link to it (and add the links).

Happy editing. Michael Hardy (talk) 01:25, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Attention Minnesotans: photos needed

There is a critical and urgent need for photographs of glorified rice, seven-layer salad, and cookie salad. If someone wants to volunteer for the dangerous mission of attending the Stone Creek Jamboree, I'm confident that there will be opportunities to photograph these items and many many more. Benson is nearby with it's distillery/ ethanol plant... Thanks to Royalbroil (a Wisconsiner) for the terrific and artful shot of snickers salad. ChildofMidnight (talk) 03:38, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

False claims about the Minneapolis Skyway System

In the wikipedia article it says that this system is "The extensive system is renowned as the largest continuous system in the world," At only on 7 mils in length it is clearly inferior to the similar Plus 15 system in Calgary Alberta which has "a total length of 16 kilometers (10 mi) and 59 bridges." The West Edmonton Mall may have been surpassed by the Mall of America, but Alberta still has a few things that are bigger than what you have in Minnesota

Personally an above ground sky walk is something every Northern City should have and it does look like a nice place to get relief from the cold winter winds.

Roger, a former Minnesotan who is now in Calgary —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.146.41.221 (talk) 19:37, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

The confusion appears to be over the idea of what constitutes a "system". The Calgarians seem to think you can include various disconnected clusters and claim the biggest. Minneapolis claims the longest continuous system. Then again, if you want to use the Calgary rules, you can then easily say the Twin Cities (MPLS/St. Paul) have the largest system in the world. --Bobak (talk) 16:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

2009 meetup

Discussion of another Minnesota Wikipedia meetup has begun. See the talk page here. Jonathunder (talk) 17:10, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Minneapolis/St. Paul task force

Is there an interest in starting a task force about the Minneapolis/St. Paul area? WhisperToMe (talk) 00:32, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Music of Minnesota for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.YellowMonkey (bananabucket) (help the Invincibles Featured topic drive) 02:37, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

This article has recently been improved; more eyes on Wikipedia:Featured article review/Music of Minnesota/archive1 would be helpful at this stage. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:49, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi all. This article has been copyedited and improved. Anybody home who can express their opinion would be welcome at featured article review. I can't canvas for votes but I can ask if anybody is here to vote? -SusanLesch (talk) 19:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Highway 24 Bridge

The highway 24 bridge article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_24_Bridge contains an error in the data box on the right. The current coordinates: 45°25′04″N 93°02′37″W are in a farmer's field in Isanti County, at least 10 miles from the Mississippi River, which the bridge supposedly crosses, and is nowhere near Highway 24. I don't know what the correct coordinates are. AustinMN (talk) 03:04, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Thank you. Kablammo (talk) 03:37, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Minnesota county navigational box template categorization.

The Minnesota county navigational box templates place themselves in their respective county categories. This is the kind of self-reference we try to avoid and it is not helpful for Wikipedia users to see our infrastructure in the article space categories. I have started the cleanup by removing Category:Minnesota county navigational boxes from Category:Minnesota counties. Each of the county templates needs a similar change. For example, tl:Template:Aitkin County, Minnesota appears in Category:Aitkin County, Minnesota. I propose we clean up all of these templates. As an example, I fixed Cottonwood County.[1].

I'm willing to go through and make these changes, but before starting I want confirmation this is the correct way to go. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 22:55, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

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Ash River in South Africa, or in Minnesota?

The Ash River article says that it is in South Africa, and gives details. Maybe so, but the references are all for Minnesota. Big time confusion! Could someone interested in Minnesota please clear up the confusion? --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:25, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

I reverted the SA info back to the MN original. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 04:30, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Music of Minnesota

Hello. I am amazed at this project's list of participants. We have a featured article review of Music of Minnesota going on for four months. That is the longest running FAR in Sandy's memory and I think it is the world's longest! So you have all had plenty of time. I don't believe you if you say you are a participant in WikiProject Minnesota but haven't taken the time to consider this article. Where are your votes? -SusanLesch (talk) 17:44, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Let me try to adjust my attitude. Bobak, Jonathunder and Bobamnertiopsis, I know you guys are still active, as are a lot of others (sorry to mention you by name but you came to mind). Could you kindly weigh in on Wikipedia:Featured article review/Music of Minnesota/archive1? Doncram took the time, so can you please? -SusanLesch (talk) 18:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Minnesota Inventors Congress

Perhaps someone should consider creating a page for the Minnesota Inventors Congress. It celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 and is the first inventors convention of its kind world wide. A few other states have created similar conventions based off of Minnesota's. It is a real asset to Minnesota and deserves its own page. Wkaardal (talk) 00:52, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

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Request for help: GAN

If anybody is so inclined ...

Territorial era of Minnesota has been stuck in the GA nomination backlog for a couple of months. Anybody with a particular interest is welcome to jump in and review ...

Thanks.

--Mcorazao (talk) 21:18, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

FYI: this passed GA. I believe that, writing quality aside, it is meets most FA criteria. However, from my last attempt to push an article into FA I know that my writing ability falls short of FA standards. If any particularly talented writers are looking to put another FA on their list of accomplishments please feel free to edit away on this one. For my part I think I am essentially done with it. --Mcorazao (talk) 17:24, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Schools

Please see Template talk:Mounds View Public Schools. What isthe recommended action here? --Kudpung (talk) 01:33, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants

I just created a draft article for the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants. I could use a little help editing it before I launch it. It can be found at User:Wkaardal/draftarticleonlegacygrants Thanks Wkaardal (talk) 18:25, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

This page is launched now but could still use a couple pairs of eyes to look it over. You can find the recently launched article here. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Historical_and_Cultural_Grants%7CMinnesota Historical and Cultural Grants[[ Thanks in advance Wkaardal (talk) 16:39, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Saint Thomas, MN?

The artist Mike Ploog talks about a possibly unincorporated town called Saint Thomas, Minnesota, located near Mankato. I can find out very little about it -- pretty much just this single map entry at Mapquest. Perhaps someone in this project who knows the area better can create a page for it, if it still (presumably) exists. With regards, -- Tenebrae (talk) 04:04, 17 April 2010 (UTC)